If you're teaching biology for non-majors this fall, you might be asking: What are the most interesting issues to engage students? This summer, Dr. Peggy Brickman is revising her course based on findings from a recent multi-institutional study that asked faculty to select critical daily lesson-level learning objectives for non-majors (Brickman et al., 2024). In this informal webinar, Peggy will share how she’s restructuring content and assessments to focus on concepts that endure, tailored to what non-science majors really need to know about biology.
She’s also eager to hear from you—what’s working in your course, what’s not, and what you’re thinking about changing.
Kelly Hennessey, Education Support Specialist, and Laura Cochran, Director of Sales, will follow up by demonstrating how Codon’s Biology for Real Life can help your students to actively engage in rounds of self testing while developing their metacognitive skills.
Can’t attend live? No problem! Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording to watch at your convenience. This event will be at 1 p.m. Eastern.
Dr. Peggy Brickman is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in Plant Biology at the University of Georgia, where she has instructed almost 30,000 introductory biology students over the past 25 years, usually in sections of general education courses with more than 300 students. In addition to developing curriculum to enhance science literacy, she researches methods to enhance collaborative learning in college classrooms and labs. Over the past decade, she has mentored graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty as a National Academies Speaker and Facilitator. She is a course director at Codon Learning, developing curriculum for nonmajors biology alongside Dr. Cara Gormally.
Dr. Kelly Hennessey taught high school (International Baccalaureate) biology and chemistry for 17 years before earning a Ph.D in Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Washington. Upon completing her Ph.D., she joined Scott Freeman as a postdoctoral researcher to develop lesson-level learning objectives for introductory biology courses. She currently serves as an educational support specialist at Codon Learning where she helps faculty design and teach evidence-based courses. She is excited about assisting instructors who aim to enhance their students' metacognitive skills, significantly improve study habits, and enhance the overall learning experience.